Crazy week

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It’s been an interesting week. Perhaps even crazy:

Bitcoin surged to new highs; saber rattling between North Korea and the rest of the world got a bit louder; white supremacists (this, in the year 2017!) had a rally where someone died. The President seemed to take far too long to come out against the violence. Transgender military folks are suing the President.

Yes, this wasn’t a week of a 9/11-style attack, the start of a shooting war, a natural disaster. Yet it seems things that might be reported in the Onion not so long ago are seemingly in our regular news feeds and papers.

Questions:

Has the world always been this crazy? What percentage of news stories do you hear and wonder, “Is this a prank/joke?”

What sort of news would, “knock your socks off,” rather than have you yawn and go back to sleep?

If you showed the headlines of today to someone thirty years ago, how much would they think was true or not?